I like to take pictures; especialy with analog cameras! Many of the pictures I take is taken with film rolls - where you can't see the picture before you have developed it in chemicals...
But why waste so much time and money on that old crap? It's the whole essential in it; the mechanical click it gives every time you take a picture - and even the smell of the fixer and development chemicals (which often sit on the pictures even a long time after it's made) - and just the good time you spend while taking some (hopefully) good pictures of everything - and nothoing.
Excatlu for hoe long I have had this interest I am not sure, but when I was around 13-15 I started to take lessons in photographing and development of film and images; all in black/white. But even before this I had a camera which I used alot; It was an autofocus camera, by Minolta if I remember correct, but it was getting boring after the photolessons, since the other had single lens reflex (SLR) cameras and I have learned about those.
Luckly my uncle had a Canon SLR-camera which I could have, and then this has followed me ever since. It's a Canon AE-1, which was introduced in 1976 and was the first 35mm SLR with a build-in CPU - and one of the most sold SLRs with over 5 million units sold in the aprox. 10 years it was made. All this I first learned later, but since I got the camera I liked it, and have had it with me alot - both in Denmark, but also on travels to other countries e.g. Prauge, the Czech Republic.
In 2009 I got my first real antique camera; A Kodak Brownie from the 1930s made for 620-films; it costed me a big bottle of Coca-Cola. I have never tried a vintage camera before and since 620-films was no longer produced, I had to use 120-films - but this I havn't been using before either! So the first roll was spoiled - exept of one picture; the last, where I finaly found out how to use the camera! Since that day I have planned to use it more, and in the last quarter of 2011 I was given 150 rolls of expired 120-film, from a photographer who couldn't use it anymore because it was expired in 2002...
My first try with the Brownie was in 2010 with a guy I know who also like to take pictures, but with a digital SLR, and we went around on Amager Isle while we talked and took pictures; the pictures taken on my German made Kodak didn't end as I hoped, but I also had with me another camera I had bought: A heavy Sovjet build Zenit EM Olympic; this uses 35mm film which I am used to, and during our walk-n-talk I almost fell in love with the heavy, all-mechanical Zenit. With the Helios objective the camera weights almost one kilogram, and every time you expose a frame you hear a very loud, mechanical "klong" - even louder than on my my Canon!
I got the "Russian" together with a Konica EE-Matic Delux, which jammed just after 4 pictures was taken, and never released again. I didn't throw it out, but I kept it for a little project: In Puerto Rico there is a guy who rebuilded a Canon AE-1 Program from analog to digital - and I wanted to try the same with the Konica; I hope to find a cheap but good digital Minolta for this project. Luckly my sister bought a Nikai camera for me that she found, which she gave me in December 2011. I examined the camera and found it faulty: the battery chamber was coorded beyond recovery - and maybe even more is broken because if the busted electrical system. This gave me an oppertunity to test out a rebuilding before working on the Konica from 1969.
Can you have too many cameras? Not really, right? In 2009 and 2010 I bought even four more cameras; three box-cameras and a SLR. My SLR is at the moment in England tho, because I borrowed it to my sister.
The three "boxes" is two American made No.2 Brownie', which uses 120-films, and one Six-20 Brownie for 620-films made in England. The last one has a fantastic viewfinder - much better than the older, since it's bigger and more clear (unfortuantly I found out that one of the mirrors is broken, but I hope I can get it fixed).
I mainly work with 35mm films, but lately I have also been using alot of 120-films; but I have only tried to develop and copy from 35mm - and copied from glass plate negatives, which I got after my grandfather.
I have always been fortuante enought to be able to borrow a dark room, but in 2001-Q4 I planned to build my own, since the photographers I usualy borrowed darkroom of, had taken theres down.
The plan is to be able to develop and copy from 35mm black/white, but hopefully also soon from 120-films. The dream is also to work with colours, but I never tried this before.
In the mid-section, you can see and read some details about my cameras and other equipment, and in the right wing section you can see some of the pictures I have taken with my analog cameras.
But even tho I am an analog freak, I also use digital cameras...
The cameras are listed after there age:
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I got this small autofocus zoom camera from a German friend of mine, who said that I could have it if I wanted it - as long as I would take some pictures for her.
This is my first enlarger; very nice and stabil. Det can be put up, taken down and carried in the case - without using any kinds of tools.
Copyright: Marco Direct
My film develop tanks are a copuple of Paterson Super System 4, like those I used at photo class back in 2000-2002. With multi-reels (which can be used for both 35mm and 120 films.
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This filter set is mostly for decoration. Not even Ilford recoment that it's used anymore, but it looks nice and vintage in my camera cabinet.
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The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark. October 2011.
Zenit EM Olympic, Helios 44M 2/58, Fuji Color, ASA-400.
